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Pen'n'paper just won't pass

Pen'n'paper just won't pass
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Synopsis

NTA conducted Joint Entrance Exams (Main) 2024 in two sessions - January and April - totalling over 1.4 mn distinct students via 500-plus exam centres across more than 300 cities in India and abroad. Paper 1 for BTech/ BE admissions in 13 languages was fully CBT, spread over 10 shifts in 5 days. The mega operations were conducted almost free of online glitches, although there were some past issues concerning impersonation due to ambiguities in Aadhaar-based authentication.

By , ET CONTRIBUTORS
6 mins read, Last Updated:
By now, we're all familiar with the fiasco that's been the 2024 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) UG - inflated scores and ranks, chaos in question paper distribution, alleged leak of question paper. UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) 2024 also saw question papers being leaked. This chain of errors can be attributed to the pen'n' paper (PnP) exam format. What is surprising is that NET was conducted as a computer-based test (CBT) for

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